I remember reading a Legion of the Superheroes comic many years ago. (I think it was Superboy and the Legion of the Superheroes no. 251, from 1979, at the end of which Matter-Eater Lad eats the Miracle Machine and goes insane.) In the letter column, there was several paragraphs of discussion ab...

Witch hunting was standard practice for muggles of old. One can argue that the main reason was fear of the unknown, but it is established (Beedle tales) that one major component of said fear was religious. How about the other way? Do magic folk follow any religious practices?

I just finished watching Jurassic World and I am wondering about something. Since we see at least three other hybrid dinosaurs (Stegoceratops; unidentified Pachycephalosaur hybrid; unidentified Therizinosaur hybrid) on a computer screen in the lab near the end, did they make any other hybrids, or...

In Cibola Burn the ships Edward Israel, Barbapiccola and Rocinante started drifting toward Ilus/New Terra once their reactors stopped working. But if they had enough velocity, shouldn't they be able to stay in the same orbit without drifting? Alex also mentions that he has enough battery that ...

In the Netflix series Titans, Season 2, the character gradually loses her powers throughout the last three or so episodes. Is there any indication in the comics or elsewhere why this might be the case?

In Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, Darkseid nearly eradicates the Justice League. He was able to do so by spying on their plans through Cyborg. How is he able to do this? On this wiki of Darkseid, it lists all the movies he is present in. I've read the page and the synopsis of the movies he...

This phrase is taken from the fellowship of the rings book II Many meetings page 258 There is always a fire here,all the year round,but there is little other light.'

The book is a collection of stories of the protagonist travelling on his scavenged ship between planets and offering bioengineering services. Remember one story with an operpopulated planet he was hired to bioengineer food nutritious enough to solve the food shortage problem. The protagonist is ...

In GoF(movie), when Harry is facing the dragon he lures the dragon out of the arena. Why though ? He duels against the dragon on a tower top and then manages to make it crash into a building. The dragon doesn't come back so harry flies back to the arena and is greeted with cheers. In CoS the sa...

In the first task of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry lures the dragon out of the arena. He then engages the dragon in a tower top duel and eventually causes the dragon to collide with a building. The dragon doesn't return, so harry returns to the arena on his firebolt. He is greeted by...

I read decades ago a UK book, I believe (I distinctly remember the word abattoir, I believe a US book would say slaughterhouse, but I might be wrong), that is mostly a psychological/psychiatric drama not unlike 12 Monkeys, then again it would not have been the 12 Monkeys script or something. We a...

In Avengers: Endgame when they use the Stones to kill Thanos and all of his forces, several things happen, that if they really just killed Thanos would not have happened. Thanos is from the past, and my dad has pointed out that since Thanos was from the past, he won't be able to get Stones, becau...

SCENE-1: (face disappears) A girl applies a cream for a pimple problem and the pimples will disappear and she is warned to not apply excess cream. In college she applies more cream and her body facial parts will disappear. SCENE-2: (Dream world) Same girl falls from sky with parachute and lands ...

In Avatar: The Last Airbender Bumi tells Aang that there are 85 types of Jing, though we are only told 3 of them at the time; Positive, Negative, and Neutral Jing. Do we know what the other 82 Jings are?

In the mid-1980s, the Timberland Regional Library branch in downtown Olympia, Washington had a series of books about some children who discovered that a museum exhibit about dinosaurs could transport them back in time to see real dinosaurs. Things I can remember: There were 3-4 books in the se...

I'm pretty sure I found this again several years ago, and learned it was a series, but I first read it when I was in elementary school (although I think it was supposed to be for older readers). The main character is a samurai in Japan. I don't know if he'd been sent by someone, or if he was doin...

This phrase is taken from The Fellowship of the Rings, Book II, Chapter 1 (page 258): Why, sitting and thinking. I do a lot of that nowadays, and this is the best place to do it in, as a rule. Wake up, indeed! Why did Bilbo tell himself "Wake up, indeed!"?

I am currently re-re-watching Lexx season 4 episode 2, and it seems like the moth is extraordinarily fast. It passes a shuttle, and seems to arrive on Earth in a matter of hours. My understanding is that the NASA trip from Earth to the moon required around 3-4 days. They did not take any food ...

In the fifth season of Supergirl, Alex Danvers leaves her position as the head of the D.E.O. and takes up vigilantism. Towards the end of the season, she is given a superhero outfit by Martian Manhunter. Previously in the series, Jimmy Olsen takes up the mantle of Guardian, an identity used by se...